Hey everybody. I hope you enjoyed the first week of the strip! There’s plenty more on the way, and I’m really excited about that.
The plan, as I’m sure you know, is to maintain an update schedule of Mondays and Thursdays. This makes me feel in some ways like I’m one-third of a cartoonist, but other aspects of my life (“day job” work, family, etc.) are too time-consuming and unpredictable for me to do more at the moment. However, if I’m able to comfortably keep a good enough lead time for long enough, I’m considering upping the ante to three times a week or beyond, or experiment with color. But that’s a way off yet.
Similarly, I don’t really have the time to keep up with a forum, but I definitely check the comments regularly, and I’d like to try and set up an e-mail address for the strip; probably a gmail account or something. I love both the feedback and the interaction, so certainly don’t be shy on the comments, and I’ll make an effort to keep up my end of that dialog.
One way of keeping both content and dialog going is the blog. In addition to any strip-related news, my plan is to do a blog post on Saturdays. I thought it would be neat if each week I made a recommendation of some kind – talked about something I found useful or entertaining and think might be worth checking out. I thought this was a good way to keep the blog personal (subjective opinions) without being boring stories about my life in general. I’ll also be able to cover a wide range of subjects from “shop talk” (favorite drawing tools or writing practices) to entertainment (movies, books, music) to random usefulness of other kinds. It’ll be an edification grab-bag! I’ll try a couple and you let me know what you think. Deal?
So, to start out with an easy one, this week’s recommendation is the RSS feed. Many of my favorite webcomics (and, of course, blogs) update sporadically or infrequently, and simply adding them to (in my case) Google Reader makes it super easy for me to keep current without having to remember to visit the site.
I mean, come on: who’s going to make a routine out of two non-consecutive weekdays? Seriously?
So, the thing is, I incorrectly filled out the title for all the strips I uploaded a week ago in that I didn’t realize they needed titles in order to update correctly. At least, I’m assuming that’s the problem. So, I apologize for the delay, which is highly unlikely to happen for this reason ever again.
The other thing is, I never really title my strips (although I do make use of the image title/hover text). So, I feel like I have several options here for the strip title, which I will delineate in list form here:
- Make up a title for each strip. The easiest way to do this for me is to pick the most interesting phrase in the comic and use it as a title. Unfortunately, this often means giving away the punch line, so then I just think of something that sort of goes with the strip, like I did for this one. I don’t want to go with the Dinosaur Comics solution, which is to basically make the strip title an additional joke, because the layout of my site actually displays the title in headline form, and it would be too long.
- Give each strip a chronologically-corresponding title. Either the number of the strip (in this case, 2) or the post date (March 4, 2010).
- Give each strip a title having nothing do do with the strip, but perhaps having some other theme. Perhaps strip titles could become a “song of the day” or “what I most recently had for lunch” feature.
So, here is your task: let me know which of these is your favorite solution by way of comment! On your mark! Get set! Go!
Greetings, one and all! Welcome to the comic! Much of this space is brand-new even to me, so I’ll be updating pages and tweaking some things as we go!
The comic will update Mondays and Thursdays, so stay tuned!










